On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:27:40PM +0200, Christian Bricart wrote: > btw: "module-init-tools" (which is a requirement for 2.6 Kernel) already > made it into Cooker. Why is there still the "modutils"-package ..? > According to the docs (<linux-2.6-source>/Documentation/Changes) > "module-init-tools" ought to be backward compatible with "modutils"..
The backwards 'compatibility' is that it runs the old modutils tools (named *.old, like insmod.old/modprobe.old/..) when it detects a 2.4.x kernel (and non module-init-tools 2.5.x versions). This obviously requires modutils. -- Regards, Olav
